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2 Chronicles 2:3-16

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3. And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, [even so deal with me]. 4. Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to Israel. 5. And the house which I build [is] great: for great [is] our God above all gods. 6. But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? 7. Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that [are] with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. 8. Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants, 9. Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great. 10. And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. 11. Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. 12. Huram said moreover, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom. 13. And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s, 14. The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. 15. Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: 16. And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 2:3-16 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 2 Chronicles 2:3

Theological / Devotional

Huram. Spelled “Hiram” in Kings (1 Kings 5:1, 2, 7, 10, 18), but in Chronicles it is spelled “Huram,” except in 1 Chron. 14:1.

Verses 3–16 deal with Solomon’s arrangements with Hiram of Tyre. This subject is dealt with in 1 Kings 5:1–18. The record in Kings mentions the envoys sent by Hiram to Solomon (1 Kings 5:1), a detail not found in Chronicles. It also includes as part of Solomon’s message, reference to David’s inability to build the Temple because of his wars (1 Kings 5:3). Solomon’s rest from war (1 Kings 5:4), and the Lord’s promise to David (1 Kings 5:5), three items that are not mentioned in the present chapter, but in 1 Chron. 22:8–10. Items found in Chronicles and not occurring in the record in Kings are: the dealings of Hiram with David (2 Chron. 2:3), the part of the sweet incense, continual shewbread, and morning and evening burnt offerings in the Temple services (v. 4), the greatness of the Temple as a house for God (vs. 5, 6), the request for a skilled worker in metal and cloth (v. 7), the kinds of trees desired (v. 8), and the payments to Hiram’s timber cutters (v. 10).

Even so deal with me. These words, not in the Hebrew, have been supplied by the translators. They are implied by the previous clause, “As thou didst deal with David my father.”

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